Misappropriation Poems

Take Back Reclaim Offense Please For Everyones Sake

...Personally above and beyond all

I hate and despise in this world

Is misappropriation of certain

What used to be meaningful words 

Critically descriptive important essential

That have b...
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Categories: misappropriation, anger, nonsense,
Form: Free verse

Misfiring With Love

...Death appeared in our relationship
The misappropriation of love was the cause

Someone I loved was drenched in solitude
We never really knew that both of us
Shoved each other away with misalignm...
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Categories: misappropriation, love, mirror,
Form: Free verse


Out of the Portrait

...I wish to wake up and see a new world,
I wish to wake up and see a new system, 
A world free from ills and pills, 
A world free from corruption and misappropriation,
A world free from war and air...
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Categories: misappropriation, change,
Form: Free verse

Open the Flood Gates

...You open the flood gates if you say
You come from the bush and are in power,
So beside your regular pay
Some misappropriation won't matter.

Billions may pass on your belt each day
And your hea...
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Categories: misappropriation, allusion, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Does It Really Matter That It Doesn'T

...My love
so you have a history
has the past then written it indelibly
all things you think you should be
you respond to all those things
conglomerate
with all the things you think you perceive
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Categories: misappropriation, today,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWoman In Chains

...she carries the child on tired hips rested on chains ‘round her waist

wasted on freedom designed to serve a white man’s lustful desire

branded inferior as time repeats itself and the pain knows...
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Categories: misappropriation, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSolo Performance

...It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpet...
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Categories: misappropriation, age, earth, family, health,
Form: Political Verse

The Eighties

...Inches to dimes running out of time. Money, space, and a broken place are the only times I remember her face. Tonight I need your sweet caress and playing piano in the dark keep circulating through m...
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Categories: misappropriation, dance, growing up, memory,
Form: Free verse

Mania

...The cup
The mauve coloured love
Filled with tea or coffee
Impish and flirty
Richly ripply
Indulgence in anarchy
Fascinatingly
A festival of crimson glee
Agelessly

A cup of happy time
Smil...
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Categories: misappropriation, emotions, image, inspiration, joy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPerambulating In Jail

...Perambulating in Jail

‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
No subversive elements needed no lateral thinking and
no thinking per se is required once you follow the crowd

‘No ...
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Categories: misappropriation, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHeteronormativity In Jail

...Heteronormativity in Jail

‘Hey you in the middle march on in median mediocrity’
                        No subversive elements needed no lateral thinking and
no thinking per se is required once ...
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Categories: misappropriation, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Race-Ism

...Race-Ism

What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?

If our differences are only skin d...
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Categories: misappropriation, black african american, immigration,
Form: Rhyme

White House

...White House



The man from the window peeped in the morning
Dreamed to send harm other fellow being
He snarled he is superior to all living
Because he showed his white hair.

Folks were pre...
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Categories: misappropriation, absence, africa, america,
Form: Blank verse

Oh Arise

...Oh Arise! 
the city with wonderful natural resources
country where all are loyals 
Country where peace and unity are our watchwords 
leaders are serving in good manners 
masters and servants are...
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Categories: misappropriation, africa, analogy, birth, black
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeloved Green Commons

...What purpose do I choose to live;
remaining aloof from evil practice and intent?
What meaning can we find to live,
reversing "evil"
that could transcend our individual absence of identity?
Origi...
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Categories: misappropriation, anger, creation, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse

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